Critical Media Literacy

Teaching Matters

Pew Research reports that 46% of teens report using the Internet “almost constantly.” Because of such rampant consumption of media, our students, and in fact, all of us, need robust tools for critically analyzing media. We are joined by two authors of a 2022 book titled, The Media and Me: A guide to critical media literacy for young people. Allison Butler and Nolan Higdon discuss multiple areas of literacy important for consumers of digital and social media as well as ways in which teachers could integrate those concepts into already-existing lessons and curriculum.